Presented in its initial version at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis at the end of the 1990’s, nocinema.org is an online application developed by Jérôme Joy. The project is an online documentary-fiction and a series of interludes for the web, whose outcomes are never identical. Nocinema.org is in a sense a sort of improbable cinema and a film without beginning, middle or end, without actors or scenario, except the stories we can construct by following the line of streamed sounds and images. Nocinema.org is an automatic system constructed on selection processes of streaming webcams on direct around the globe, filming a shot in different places, panoramised and temporized by the editing generated on line, cut with a few black sections (listening without image). The sounds, organized in a live-calculated mix, come from a database continuously fed by a team of collaborators: Magali Babin, DinahBird, Christophe Charles, Yannick Dauby, Chantal Dumas, Emmanuelle Gibello, Jérôme Joy, Luc Kerléo, Alain Michon et Jocelyn Robert.

The video is a twenty minute sequence that I filmed during a train trip from Kyoto to Osaka. The images are filmed in close-up; they show the Japan of outside the cities, with its slums, modern buildings and construction sites. A framework was created on the basis of the images. Sylvan Licois and I played music in real time on two laptops, rendering the innumerable voices and actions of the people in the train.

 
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